Update: Power was restored to Onondaga Community College around 4 p.m., a spokeswoman said. -- 4:12 p.m.

Onondaga, NY -- The Onondaga Community College campus is without power, part of a larger outage affected 1,718 customers, according to National Grid.

The 2:30 p.m. outage resulted from high winds on top of Onondaga Hill, said spokeswoman Virginia Limmiatis. Electricity was being switched to different channels, and all power was expected to be restored by 4 p.m., she said.

A customer may include anything from a single resident to an entire college campus.

At the time of the outage, dispatchers responded to power lines down at Harris Road and West Seneca Turnpike, to the west of campus.

The power company said that 7,000 to 8,000 of its Central New York and Mohawk Valley customers were without power at the height of the storm Tuesday. Most of the outages were east of Syracuse, with the hardest-hit being Rome.